Word: jestingly
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...take exception to the offhand comment that by 2001 everyone will be using computers with Windows 2001 and that the only holdouts will be "aging potheads still designing really cool fractal algorithms" on Macintosh computers. Even in jest, comments like this distort reality. Macs are not relevant only to impractical deadbeats. Most of us know that if you want an elegant computer that is easy to set up, operate and maintain, you buy a Mac. Otherwise you get a PC. ALAN THOMPSON San Mateo, Calif...
...birthday party that his father had always advised him to find a woman who would stick with him through thick and thin and that "those of you who know Victoria know that she's thick, and she certainly is thin." Spencer and Lockwood claim that this was said in jest, but the comment seems rather harsh nonetheless...
Zoeller has since released a half-hearted apology, claiming that his "comments were not intended to be racially derogatory" and expressing his regret that "they were misconstrued in this fashion." He also said: "It's too bad that something I said in jest was turned into something it's not, but I didn't mean anything...
...Franzen's gloomy observation has not deflected him or three other gifted writers of his acquaintance: Donald Antrim, Rick Moody and David Foster Wallace, last year's young literary comet. Only two months after Franzen's complaint, Wallace made a connection with Infinite Jest, his 1,000-page opus about an early 21st century North America splintered by drugs, fanatics and a business ethic so venal that even the months of the year have product names...
...Infinite Jest (Little, Brown). The year's longest good novel, at 1,079 pages, is by turns enthralling and exasperating, with the emphasis on the former. David Foster Wallace brilliantly extrapolates cultural and commercial trends into a nightmarishly funny near future, where years are named after products. One of the many subplots involves a movie, Infinite Jest, that can literally make its viewers die laughing. Readers, beware...